This page presents the geographical name data for Kay Island in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division.

Description (see definition): A small island lying 2 mi E of Cape Johnson in the N part of Wood Bay, Victoria Land. Discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy (RN), and named by him for Lieutenant Joseph W. Kay, Dir. of the Rossbank Observatory in Tasmania, who was third lieutenant on the ship Terror. Originally charted by Ross as a group of three islands, only this one is now known to exist.

NOTE: The information regarding Kay Island in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Kay Island should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

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